Nevena Kostić
The Other Face of Silence
Salon 77, August 26 – September 21, 2025
An excerpt from a dozen drawings from the landscape cycle by artist Nevena Kostić forms a new exhibition at Salon 77. Predominantly using the technique of charcoal on paper, which she mixes with watercolor, pastel, ink and collage, the artist assumes systems of expressive lines with small colored accents, painted or glazed passages, but most often with inverse drawing with an eraser. The tension of the scene in some works manifests the aesthetic category of sublimity, which is somewhat limited today, while in others, the sequence of plans in depth leads the observer to meditative reflections. One gets the impression that the works in which these two treatments meet are particularly successful because they seem to support the thesis that beyond tense situations lies a world of peace, completely immune in its ignorance.
Nevena Kostić (Kragujevac, 1988) completed her undergraduate and master’s studies in mural painting at the Department of Applied Arts of the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac, in the class of Professor Zoran Ivanovic. She has participated in the work of numerous domestic and international art colonies. She has exhibited in a large number of collective exhibitions, and has realized seven solo exhibitions. She has won four awards for drawing and mosaic. She has been a member of ULUS since 2015.
The exhibition “The Other Face of Silence” can be visited by the public until September 21 at Salon 77.